365 Days. 365 Voices

"the3six5" started on January 1st, 2010 and ultimately crowdsourced the story of an entire year from the perspective of a different person each day. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds and geographic locations and together revealed our collective conscious of what took place over the course of 365 days. While the individual tales shared with the... [read more]

365 Days. 365 Voices

"the3six5" started on January 1st, 2010 and ultimately crowdsourced the story of an entire year from the perspective of a different person each day. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds and geographic locations and together revealed our collective conscious of what took place over the course of 365 days. While the individual tales shared with the public were an amazing result, we'd like to share the learnings and anecdotes that happened behind the scenes of this seemingly simple (but quite the opposite) crowdsourced project that took us from nothing, to a published book.

Ranging from an unknown senior citizen in Nashville, TN, to a physicist working at CERN in Switzerland, to major personalities like Baratunde Thurston or Ann Curry, guiding this project and PEOPLE every single day as a mere "side project" to our day jobs taught us many things. Many of our fans and authors often made the point that, "the case-study of this project will be just as interesting as the project itself" and we would like to finally share the inside story of the commitment, humor, and stress that came along with bringing this crowdsourced project from January 1st, to December 31st one day at a time.

This session will serve those who are seeking to develop their own crowd-fueled web content by sharing the mistakes and revelations that the3six5 experiment taught us.